I feel like everyone has that one liquor that they avoid like the plague because of one really bad night. You know that one night where you took one to several shots too many. You wake up the next day to immediately pray to Jesus through the big porcelain telephone that you’ll never drink again only to double back like a week to a month later. That’s fireball for me. To this day, I cannot take a whiff of the cinnamon whiskey without being whisked away to the backseat of my dad’s jeep swearing I had a “stomach bug” as I intermittently shared last night’s dinner with a paper bag that was keeping it together just as well as I was (poorly). What I just colorfully described is an example of taste aversion, the dislike of food due to the association with nausea. Now this association extends beyond getting off your trolley. You may have gotten food poisoning from some bad shrimp, and now you swear off the delicious sea insects solely on the one bad experience. Maybe you caught a whiff of durian, a fruit I’ve never eaten and never will because it smells like a well-used jockstrap. Regardless, all these feelings can be described under the blanket term of taste aversion.
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I really enjoyed you post! Your example used was a universal one that I know every college student has experienced at least once in their life. I personally got food poisoning from my brothers chicken and have refused to eat anything he cooks in general anymore. Taste aversion is a very interesting topic in how the brain can in a sense hold a grudge against a certain smell or taste for years. Excellent job explaining the concept!
ReplyDeleteI completely agree that this term can be used in almost anyone's life. I know for me it is the taste of artificial orange. I ate way too many orange starbursts when I was younger and ended up throwing it all back up, the taste didn't leave my mouth for what felt like a week. Even now, I avoid artificial orange flavor anytime possible, because it still makes me sick to my stomach.
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